Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scott… Read Full Bio ↴Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.

All of the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are now freely available at Project Gutenberg, both in text and spoken word.

The stories of Sherlock Holmes are also available on tape/CD from CSA Word Publications as audiobooks and is read by Edward Hardwicke who is best known for playing Dr Watson in the highly acclaimed Granada tv series Sherlock Holmes which starred Jeremy Brett.

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Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce Partington Plans
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@BitesizedAudio

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The story begins at 00:01:15. One of the finest Sherlock Holmes short stories, from its wonderfully atmospheric opening description of a fog-girt London to the dramatic unmasking of the criminal, 'The Bruce-Partington Plans' is a Holmesian masterclass of deduction and reasoning to uncover a tale of treason, espionage and murder. It also features one of only two appearances of Holmes's brother Mycroft in the original Conan Doyle stories.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes are recommended to listen to Greg Wagland's excellent narrations on his channel @sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio, where he's recorded the entire Holmes canon, plus some great pastiches as well as many of Conan Doyle's lesser-known works.
Note: long-time listeners to the channel may remember this story from 2019, it was one of my very first uploads. This new version was recorded last year but I've only just got around to editing and mastering for YouTube.

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@mfranssens

33w

Love listening to your stories in the car. I connect my phone to the radio via Bluetooth.

The BBC have given up their impartiality and so lost their listener base.

If their head of programming sees this. They should play one of your stories, each morning.
They are well narrated and have a broad appeal.
It would help ease everyone into their day.

Simon, Thank-you, again, for uploading these.

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@BitesizedAudio

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@montdawgs

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Could you add "updated" or something of that sort to the thumbnail or title for situations such as these?

@smythharris2635

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Well played, Mr.Stanhope. Top notch!

@susangordon1153

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Perfection to the ear! Thank you Simon. I love this one! ❤

@BitesizedAudio

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Glad you like it! Thanks Susan

@susangordon1153

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@mikeblair7614

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One of my favorite Sherlock Holmes cases.

@BitesizedAudio

38w

Mine too, probably my favourite of the short stories. Thanks Mike

@ryangooseling

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Your stories are always so absorbing ❤

@simonkeys17

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Another top notch reading Mr Stanhope. You always bring these stories to life so vividly.

@BitesizedAudio

37w

Thank you!

@njlkerins

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Thank you, Mr. S.Excellent episode, as always.

@maxgc6413

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Simply marvelous, another perfect tale for the summer evenings.

@mjrchapin

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This is one of Conan Doyle's best short works; this plot could easily be a movie today.

@inisipisTV

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Have you watched the 1986 Granada TV adaptation starring Jeremy Brett. It's quite fateful to the story.

@heathermtaylor7683

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@@inisipisTV- Well done. I was going to mention that...The Bruce Partington Plans (episode No. 25) is the 4th episode of season 4 of the Granada series: Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes), starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson, aired on ITV on 27 april 1988. 😁

@santiedebeer9461

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I always listen to your stories while I'm working and thoroughly enjoy every one of them, thank you so much.

@j.t.1215

33w

God blessed you with a perfect voice, tone, enunciation, pressure of speech and all good things required for a spellbinding delivery. I'm so happy to have found this channel and I am blessed to hear these narrations.❤ Oh that everyone in the world could speak so beautifully; our planet would be a much better place! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! ❤

@kayi9236

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Thank you so much Simon, as always a real pleasure to hear your performance of such a classic tale, thoroughly enjoyed your author's notes too!

@BitesizedAudio

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Glad to know that, thank you Kay

@mfranssens

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@williamhagen2792

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Stanhope us an artist. Great narration.

@kellashylock2772

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One of the best Sherlock stories, thanks for this :-D

@elizabethmerriman531

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Simply said, I so enjoy you and your narration of the wonderful stories you provide for us. You are very much appreciated. Listening to you in Texas

@purdy9170

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Excellent as always ..and your choice of music is very effective 💕😊

@BitesizedAudio

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Thank you! You've reminded me that I forgot to mention the piece of music in the video description – it's an extract from 'Duet for Two Violins' by Luigi Boccherini, Op 5 N2 Larghetto. I'll add it in now!

@purdy9170

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@@BitesizedAudio Many thanks again 💕😊

@mijiyoon5575

38w

Narration most excellent, as usual ...Thank You Simon ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@rachels4848

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I love hearing you narrate Sherlock Holmes mysteries. The music 🎶 you chose for this is perfect 💯.
My favorite story is The Hound of the Baskervilles.
I listen to Greg Wagland. I wanted Sherlock Holmes audios and then your channel was recommended. Yippee! 😁 ❤🎉

@BitesizedAudio

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Ah yes, 'The Hound' is a real corker. I'd love to tackle it, but it would require setting aside a bit more time than I have at the moment! One day, I hope...

@rachels4848

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@@BitesizedAudio Oh, yes! The Hound of the Baskervilles is a long, long novel. I had not heard of The Bruce-Partington Plans before listening to it on your channel. Hurray.

@simoneclift3155

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Top hole Mr Stanhope. Many thanks. 😊

@sharonwhiteley6510

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Another outstanding performance and reading.
Hope to hear any stories from the Blind Detective or the female reporter with her friend who ties knots while reviewing cases.
May GOD bless

@AnDagdasDaughter

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Dear Mr. Stanhope,
You are the absolute best Sherlock…Watson, AND Mycroft yet! Many thanks for all you do! ❤

@BitesizedAudio

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That's extremely kind of you to say, thank you!

@AnDagdasDaughter

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@jodywho6696

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I just love it. Thank you✨🇺🇸✨😊✨

@rosiemcnaughton9933

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Thank you, Simon. Well done.

@irenabevans3411

37w

Superb reading of a Holmes adventure against crime, Thank You Simon, looking forward to your next offering 😊

@REFaust

38w

Wonderful story and brilliantly performed. Great to see a Holmes story on the channel, even if there are many readings already out there.

@BitesizedAudio

38w

Thank you. Another Holmes coming up soon...

@andrewbeale6072

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A fine addition to your Holmes collection. It was one of the hundred stories Somerset Maugham selected for his 1939 anthology 'Tellers of Tales', the only detective story.

@BitesizedAudio

38w

Thanks Andrew. I do like Somerset Maugham's own fine short stories as well, unfortunately they're still under copyright for a few more years so I'm not able to do them for the channel

@andrewbeale6072

38w

I understand. I just wanted to call attention to an agreement of tastes.

@mariameere5807

38w

Thank you so much ❤ Definitely worth hearing it again read by your good self! Blessings in abundance!🙏💙🌍✨🦋

@BitesizedAudio

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Thanks Maria. Same to you!

@gazzathomas1423

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Excellent relaxing story

@inisipisTV

38w

A good Companion piece to the "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo" by Arthur Morrison, which bore many plot similarities. A story that was narrated here too earlier. Both Author most likely influence each to their respective stories.😊

@williamhagen2792

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Stanhope is excellent.

@rosemaryclarke2348

26w

More Holmes read beautifully by our favourite reader.

@bogusawbrozyna4995

32w

Dziękuję bardzo

@spews1973

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This was also very pleasant listening.

@BitesizedAudio

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Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

@michaeldean1445

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Well done... Many thanks!

@lyndaa7560

37w

Very good Simon, thank-you xx

@stewartlancaster6155

37w

the thud of the fall in the fog ! very pleasing wordplay .

@SpuktasticAudio

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I can just visualise you sat at the microphone with meerschaum and deer-stalker. ❤

@BitesizedAudio

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I do like to get into character...

@inisipisTV

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Though the Deerstalker was never specifically written in any Holmes stories, the accompanying illustrations by Sidney Paget in it's first publications features them promenantly, and I'm sure Doyle would surely approve all of Paget's fashion details. So technically, it's Canon.

The Meerschaum pipe on the other hand is debatable. The first actor to play Sherlock Holmes, William Gillette on the stage introduced the iconic Calabash pipe (porcelain or meerschaum), since it's a more better theater prop than the usual thin small pipes that Holmes smokes in the books.

@BitesizedAudio

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@inisipisTV Indeed so, although in the original stories Holmes is described as smoking various different types of pipe, e.g. a long-stemmed cherrywood when in a disputatious mood (The Copper Beeches), although generally it's described as an "old clay pipe" or "old briar-root pipe". Sidney Paget showed him with a simple straight pipe, but as you say Gillette introduced the curved pipe (though I don't think it was actually a Meerschaum) because it was easier to talk with it clenched between his teeth. The deerstalker was Paget's own personal choice of headgear for wearing in the country, as opposed to the ear flapped cap described by Doyle, but it suits the features of Holmes so well (Paget's model was actually his brother Walter) that it's difficult to imagine him without it. One bugbear I have about TV and film adaptations is when they depict Holmes wearing his deerstalker in the wrong context, e.g walking the streets of London. In 'Murder by Decree' he goes to the Royal Opera House in a deerstalker! He would never have done that; top hat with frock coat in town; deerstalker with tweeds etc for the country only. I think the only adaptations I've seen to get that right were the Jeremy Brett series and the early Basil Rathbone films (before they updated him to the 1940s to save money).

@patriciajrs46

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Capital Simon! Here so!! I loved it.
As much as I try sleuthing I must admit that I fail, most often. I suppose I lack deductive reasoning powers. Hmm. Se la vie. I will keep trying.. Thanks always.

@francislarv3012

34w

1895 submarine. Just how technical could it be ? For the time, very. But funny nevertheless. Good story. Smooth prose. Excellent narration

@LadyBronwynn1400

37w

I just saw this. I did not get a notification for some reason. This will be good I know it. Thank you, Simon.

@BitesizedAudio

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Interesting, I think the notifications do seem to go astray sometimes. Glad you found it anyway!

@amethyst42

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I remember my first and only visit to London, in the tube line, and not anticipating the rush of air that came before the train, and my ticket, in my hand, but not tightly enough, being whisked away and down the line. It was a £50 fine (1999) to be let out of the subway... I should have just jumped off! (kidding)

@BitesizedAudio

38w

Oh dear, how unfortunate. Wouldn't happen nowadays, as they've abolished paper tickets! I wonder whether the Oyster card system would have helped or hindered Holmes in this investigation...?

@cgarby

24w

Wonderful

@williamnorton7697

37w

I suppose you know how your name is pronounced, but I would suggest it's Stanhope to rhyme with stirrup. Lovely, deliberate delivery just like Peter Pears. A little affected but quite clear.

@BitesizedAudio

36w

Yes indeed, certainly the aristocratic branch of the Stanhope family (not my branch, alas...) would have pronounced it to sound like Stannup, especially in the 19th century or earlier, and actually I have pronounced it "Stannup" myself when the name has cropped up as a character name in Victorian literature. In terms of my own name, I did try using the Stannup pronunciation when first starting out as an actor, but I got rather tired of constantly explaining myself to people unfamiliar with the name, so I ended up just going with the flow... It's a bit like the name Cowper, which traditionally is supposed to be pronounced "Cooper", but many people who have that surname now pronounce it with the "ow" sound instead of "oo". Anyway, thank you for listening and taking the time to comment

@crystalclear6864

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Just arrived . I live abroad. Time diff. yea:) mr Stanhope and his narration and his great choice of audio books.

@stewartlancaster6155

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surely everyone lives abroad ?

@crystalclear6864

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@annetteeggett

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Just about to turn in and here’s is your lovely face and voice ♥️

@smythharris2635

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I say, steady,The Buffs! 😅

@BitesizedAudio

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😊 Thanks Annette. I hope you slept well!

@annetteeggett

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@@BitesizedAudio so well I will be tuning in again 😀❤️

@Bar-Hillel

31w

Oh dearie me, Dr Watson! Surely you would not have us believe that Mr Holmes would consider such a case as EXTRA ordinary? Tisk, tisk. Mr Holmes would never make such a crude mistake in describing cases which excited the interest of, not only his extraordinary wit and intelligence, but also his extraordinary grasp of the English language.

That is a 21st century error, perpetrated by Americans and picked up by the ignorant and impressionable English. No, no, Dr Watson, that one does not pass muster as something Mr Holmes would ever have uttered.

@BitesizedAudio

31w

Interesting points, thank you. I'm always fascinated by the pronunciation of words and how they've changed over time, accents and dialects. In this particular case, I'm not so sure that extra-ordinary is an American influence though, and it's certainly not a 21st century error: H. W. Fowler mentions both pronunciations in his 1924 classic on English usage, which indicates that both were familiar on this side of the pond long before the influence of Hollywood etc began to be felt. It's not standard and usually reserved for theatrical or dramatic effect – as in this case; admittedly it's not the way I'd normally pronounce it in most contexts. I believe it's also more commonly heard in Scotland, and over the years I'm aware there have been numerous attempts amongst devoted Holmesians to argue that the great detective, like his creator, was of Scottish heritage; maybe that was in the back of my mind too. Anyway, an interesting debate. Thank you for listening and taking the time to comment

@wendyeader261

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Simon Stanhope, Painting Pictures in the Air with Sound...

@karenkelly2376

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❤

@senaitmichael5978

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Tanks you so much ❤

@jackyhawkins1895

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Thank you 😊

@BitesizedAudio

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You're welcome 😊

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Thanks!

@jeynjohnston8085

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Thank you

@chrissy529

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It Feels Great!
To Be 1st.🥇🏆

@BitesizedAudio

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You were! 🏆 Thanks for listening Chrissy!

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Thanks!

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Thanks so much for your support

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